The San Juan Island Garden Club is hosting an excursion to the WSU Display Gardens in Mount Vernon. The gardens provide inspiration for all. Join us for a fun filled day. We will also visit other nurseries and farm stands as time allows. Date: September 20th Depart on the 8:05 ferry Return on the 4:45  Continue Reading

Islanders Bank teams are sponsoring the 5th annual Gear Up for Our Schools campaign for the 2014-15 school year. The campaign has been running since July 14th and it closes next Wednesday, August 20th. New school supplies help create student excitement in learning. Please help support our students and their teachers by donating supplies. Visit  Continue Reading

In one extraordinary production, lovers of Baroque opera have it all: the world’s best singers, glorious music of the Baroque masters and a story drawn from Shakespeare. The Enchanted Island is featured in The Met: Live in HD Summer Encores series at San Juan Community Theatre on Sunday, August 17 at 2:00 pm. Originally transmitted  Continue Reading

Susan L. Nichols has opened a new business providing Occupational Therapy services. Susie, as she prefers to be called, has been an Occupational Therapist for 21 years. Her office is located over at 880 Guard Street, next door to the Rental Shop and it includes her clinic, a set up for making Orthoses, or hand  Continue Reading

The Whale Museum is pleased to welcome Jessica Lundin as part of the 2014 Summer Lecture Series. Jessica will discuss “What happens after you scoop the poop? What the science of whale scat is telling us about Southern Resident killer whales” on Tuesday, August 19 at 7:00 p.m. The Orca Scat Team has been collecting  Continue Reading

Mark your calendar now for the FREE boating course coming up in September. The Friday Harbor Power Squadron will be offering instruction for this class for Free – the only cost is for  the course materials. Get your Boater Education Card (required to operate any boat with an engine of 15hp or more. What is  Continue Reading

Just received a note from an Update reader who suggested putting up a link to the Fair’s exhibitor information pages to make them easy to find today – Tuesday, SJC Fair Entry Day. Good idea! So here’s a link: http://www.sjcfair.org/p/-2014-fair/exhibitors/266

Here’s a note from Amy Taylor at the Town of Friday Harbor administrative office… In response to requests from the business community, the Town of Friday Harbor has temporarily re-designated 22 parking spaces in the downtown core from 2 hour to 8 hour parking. With the busy visitor season upon us, it was becoming increasingly  Continue Reading

The Animal Protection Society – Friday Harbor is very pleased to announce the kickoff of a capital campaign to raise funds for a new animal shelter facility on San Juan Island. The project, “New Home – New Hope” was formally announced to the community at last Sunday’s ‘Wags to Riches’ event, and the initial response  Continue Reading

Here’s a heads up for you Fair Early Birds from Barbara Bevens, 4-H Leaders Council… The San Juan Ramblers Booth is back in business to serve all the early worker bees at the fair. It is under new management with a new menu to tickle your taste buds. This year Jim O Brian, Quartermaster (boat driver) on the  Continue Reading

Dr. Vincent Shu of the Washington Institute of Natural Studies is collecting signatures on a petition to open a new facility at the old Inter-Island Medical Center building on Spring Street. Here are some of his notes about this… The issues to be addressed: Is complementary alternative medicine through the W.I.N.S. integrative Community Clinic an  Continue Reading

There’s a new restaurant in town for Take-Out and Catering. It’s “La Authentica Mexicana” and it’s located over at Surina Business Park. They had a grand opening party last Thursday and then officially opened for business on Saturday. Currently they offer a different menu each day of the week (except Mondays when they’re closed): Tue  Continue Reading

Local photographer Aaron Shepard sent over a cool photo with this note. Thanks Aaron!… Hi Tim. Here’s one that might work in the Update. It’s a picture of the New Oregon returning from a day of fishing, taken Saturday night from the end of the Friday Harbor breakwater. (I used a D610 with a 24-120mm  Continue Reading

I recently popped in on our Town Administrator, Duncan Wilson, to ask about what’s happening up on Blair Avenue this summer, and the reason for all the construction and road closures. He shared what’s going on along with this cool graphic (which you can also see in the hallway to the public meeting room at  Continue Reading

Remember a couple weeks ago when Washington State Ferries cancelled the Sidney BC run so they could move the Chelan to the Kingston/Edmonds run for a couple days? Louise Dustrude shares this story of how some people were affected by that… How many people do you suppose were inconvenienced — or worse — when the  Continue Reading